facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts Windaction http://www.windaction.org/articles/c91+112?theme=atom Xarayar 2006-06-12T02:16:27Z .38445 2013-05-23T17:50:45Z 2013-05-23T17:50:45Z

A Hillsborough County Superior Court judge David Garfunkel ruled Monday that town officials violated the state's Right-To-Know law by holding illegal non-public hearings with Antrim Wind Energy and its counsel to negotiate a payment in lieu of taxes, known as a PILOT agreement. As a result of the ruling, the terms of the deal between the town and Antrim Wind Energy has been voided.

.38402 2013-05-21T12:32:06Z 2013-05-21T12:32:06Z

Antrim Town Administrator Galen Stearns said that the wind developer's attorney drafted the motion for rehearing, and it was sent back and forth several times between Geiger and the town for modifications. ...He added that having Geiger draft the appeal was an attempt to speed up the process. Geiger drafted the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreement that was also signed by the town.

.38359 2013-05-17T11:27:04Z 2013-05-17T11:27:04Z

The appeal and request for a rehearing were crafted by Antrim Wind's attorneys Orr & Reno, according to Select Board Chairman Gordon Webber. Antrim Wind requested the town appeal the decision in support of the LLC's pending appeal, which has to be submitted by June 1, Webber said.

.7386 2013-05-16T00:05:18Z 2013-05-16T00:05:18Z

The Antrim Select Board voted to appeal the state ruling that denied a 10-turbine wind project after deciding to accept a $40,000 offer from Antrim Wind in a contentious meeting Monday that led to one resident being escorted out by police and several others walking away in frustration.

.38306 2013-05-08T12:17:08Z 2013-05-08T12:17:08Z

The SEC denied Antrim Wind Energy's application based on negative visual impacts the wind farm - proposed for the ridgeline of Tuttle Hill and Willard Mountain in Antrim - would have had on the town and its surrounding communities.

.38284 2013-05-05T00:03:40Z 2013-05-05T00:03:40Z

One point of agreement during a daylong forum on wind energy in Concord last week is that nobody's really happy with the way New Hampshire has been deciding on these projects since Lempster Wind, between Keene and Claremont, was approved more than five years ago.

.38256 2013-05-02T22:58:19Z 2013-05-02T22:58:19Z

The Select Board voted Monday night to delay the decision whether to accept a $40,000 compensation from Antrim Wind Energy until after the state committee that turned down the project in February releases its final order. ..."It does look like you're taking a bribe," said Kat Affholter.

.37829 2013-03-24T20:07:20Z 2013-03-24T20:07:20Z

"Some breathing room is what everybody is asking for, and a chance to have an independent study of the SEC and its processes and to perhaps recommend ways it could become more efficient, more sensitive to the voices of the people most impacted," Tuthill said. "You can back off take a year, and see what's happening."

.37754 2013-03-17T20:12:53Z 2013-03-17T20:12:53Z

By a vote of 25-22, voters approved Article 29, which would require all wind energy facilities that may come to be located in the town to post security in the form of cash or bond, prior to initiating construction, in order to cover the costs of removing all of the facility upon ceasing operations.

.37765 2013-03-17T02:47:56Z 2013-03-17T02:47:56Z

"Iberdrola Renewables knows where the community now stands, from the official voting records in the three towns. In November, Iberdrola stated at three separate meetings in three separate towns that they would not proceed if the townspeople were not in favor of their project. Will they live up to their words and respect the people's voice?"

.37720 2013-03-13T15:21:09Z 2013-03-13T15:21:09Z

The incumbent selectman was ousted and a wind farm project got the thumbs down from voters Tuesday. Almost 60 percent, of the registered voters turned out. An article asking voters "to advise the Selectmen to REJECT the proposed Wild Meadow Wind Project" passed 334 to 190.

.37716 2013-03-13T12:02:27Z 2013-03-13T12:02:27Z

It's town meeting season. Around Newfound Lake Several towns are contemplating non-binding resolutions to take the pulse of voters on the question of wind-farms. The votes show strong sentiment against more wind-farms in the area, and scant support.

.37731 2013-03-13T11:54:23Z 2013-03-13T11:54:23Z

The zoning board in January also amended its variance to allow for the three turbines. The zoning board had originally approved four turbines at up to 400 feet and a fifth turbine at 500 feet. In January, the zoning board approved three 500-foot turbines.

.37635 2013-03-06T10:12:31Z 2013-03-06T10:12:31Z

Members of New Hampshire Wind Watch say that a subsidiary of a German company, called Juwi Wind, has signed a lease for 1,300 acres of land Groton, for the purpose of building a wind farm.

.37634 2013-03-06T01:32:38Z 2013-03-06T01:32:38Z

"Everything I've discovered - on my own and through this committee - is that wind projects are not economical, nor will they ever be economical, and I believe that we should stop them before the state is destroyed," said Rep. Laurence Rappaport, a Colebrook Republican.

.37468 2013-02-21T01:00:18Z 2013-02-21T01:00:18Z

Last month, New Hampshire state lawmakers quietly introduced a bill that would suspend further wind project development in the Granite State. More than a month later, that proposal is gaining considerable attention from both state representatives and local residents, some of whom claim that wind turbines have damaging effects on tourism and property values.

.37432 2013-02-20T01:01:34Z 2013-02-20T01:01:34Z

Labor and business groups were outnumbered today in a hearing to put a moratorium on any wind farm or electrical transmission line project. House Bill 580 calls for an energy plan to be written before permits are issued for projects such as Northern Pass or wind farms such as the one on Tenney Mountain in Plymouth.

.37435 2013-02-19T04:05:35Z 2013-02-19T04:05:35Z

"The major downside of these wind towers they require an enormous amount of space. And it's not just ordinary space, it is our mountaintops, it is those high forests, it is the ridgelines that I think define with is beautiful about New Hampshire."

.37434 2013-02-19T03:45:48Z 2013-02-19T03:45:48Z

Those supporting the moratorium heavily outnumbered those opposed to the bill. Many traveled from northern parts of the state to explain why they think the wind turbines aren't a good fit for their communities. "When does a private company in search of profit have more rights than the private citizen who owns property in the state of New Hampshire?"

.37377 2013-02-13T13:48:14Z 2013-02-13T13:48:14Z

"Proper siting involves a multitude of considerations, including environmental impacts," the statement read. "We felt strongly that this proposed project failed the ‘proper siting' criteria. Clearly, the SEC agreed."